How Cowbee (prominent.ml Tankie) conflates the terms "communism" and "Tankie" to push the narrative that they're the only "true leftists/Communists" - Lemmy.World
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The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie] >Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. Join the lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] instance! To make this easy you can do an instance block at Settings > Block Tab > Scroll to bottom > Input “lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]” and apply And consider donating to individual instances instead. Check the megathread [https://lemmy.world/post/29072279] for more!

The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.

Join the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the > Lemmy.ml instance! To make this easy you can do an instance block at Settings > Block Tab > Scroll to bottom > Input “lemmy.ml” and apply

And consider donating to individual instances instead.

Check the megathread for more!

  • Dirt_Possum [she/her, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
    491·
    6 days ago

    That’s exactly it. They have no actual defense against Cowbee’s method of respectful patience (and they absolutely can’t compete with his well rounded knowledge of history that he can back up with citations even they can’t deny). So their only option is to fabricate outright ridiculous lies and twist themselves in knots to try paint him as the bad guy somehow. This time he’s the big bad guy who must be literally boycotted because… he doesn’t know about the wikipedia definition of once-niche term now used as a catch-all by anti-communists? Um. Right. Ok, libs. But no, I think we can safely assume that Cowbee is as well aware as the rest of us what reactionaries and liberals mean when they start frothing about “tankies.”

    Edit: It’s also amusing they’re calling to boycott not just Cowbee himself but an entire instance because a single user on it is supposedly unaware of the wikipedia definition of an epithet. An epithet every ML has encountered thousands of times. And this is supposed to make the fediverse, (which is famously all about sequestration and disconnecting people from each other and challenging ideas) a better place.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      15·
      6 days ago

      It’s also amusing they’re calling to boycott not just Cowbee himself but an entire instance

      What they really hate and find extremely confusing is that there are instances on fediverse where they can’t just silence communists. They got so used to doing this on every single other social media platform they can’t even imagine otherwise.